From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 21.2.90 pretest, 21.3, 21.4... Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 21:44:09 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7458-Tue05Nov2002214034+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036530135 32202 80.91.224.249 (5 Nov 2002 21:02:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:02:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189Apu-0008N1-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 22:02:10 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 189Ay5-0005Fh-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 22:10:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189Ajg-0007kN-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:55:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 189Adw-0006WV-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:49:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 189Adp-0006Vc-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:49:44 -0500 Original-Received: from elvis.franken.de ([193.175.24.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189Ado-0006V2-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:49:41 -0500 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.36 #1) id 189Adn-0006z9-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 21:49:39 +0100 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id 82D1BA53E3; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:44:09 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <7458-Tue05Nov2002214034+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> ("Eli Zaretskii"'s message of "Tue, 05 Nov 2002 21:40:35 +0300") Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9147 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9147 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > What's there to understand? There are no patch sets to fix a special problem -- all fixes are done incrementally. Having patch sets could theoretically allow to fix on to of 21.2 the encoding problem only. > Something needs to do the job of preparing the tarballs and making > decisions which bugs to fix on the branch and how. The available > resources (manpower and free time) are obviously not enough to make > timely releases. Sure. I don't want to blame you (or any other release manager) personally, by no means! Pre-release candidates should be available more visibly. > Nobody ignores serious problems, please don't assume such things. Yes, but if a problem is rated as serious it might be appropriate to work on such a problem first and to try to solve it for _all_ Emacs users. Maybe, that's just my very personal opinion. -- ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)